**Reasons to choose Kingston**
– This course will integrate your interests in human rights and sociology. You’ll gain expertise and insights applicable to both.
– You’ll develop practical skills as a researcher, activist and campaigner, engaging with current issues.
– A wealth of extra-curricular projects are on offer, including those in the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice Practice at Kingston University.
**This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Social Sciences**
This foundation year is taught at the University giving you a taste of academic life in a supportive environment. The year gives you the academic and technical preparation for undergraduate study in a wide range of social sciences subjects. Lectures, labs and tutorials will give you a broad understanding across subjects including economics, criminology, politics, sociology and psychology.
**About this course**
How are human rights affected by social factors such as gender, race and global inequality? How do relationships, human behaviour and society relate to the protection and promotion of human rights?
If you want to gain a greater understanding of these universal issues, this could be the degree for you. While studying, you’ll develop practical skills in research, numeracy, data collection and analysis, teamwork and communication.
You have the opportunity to take a work placement option through a sandwich year. Your final year project will allow you to immerse yourself in the topics that interest you most.
Course Details - Modules
Examples of modules:
Year 0
- Foundation Year in Social Sciences
Year 1
- Another World is Possible: Order and Revolution in Political Ideology
- Introduction to Human Rights
- Contemporary Issues in Sociology
- Researching Everyday Life
Year 2 (Core)
- Securing Human Rights: Contemporary Themes and Issues
- How to Change the World
Year 2 (Optional)
- Modern Political Thought
- Slavery and Emancipation
- Latin America: Power, Politics and El Pueblo Rising
- Crime, Media and Policy
- Youth, Crime and Deviance
- Voices of Contemporary Europe
- International Relations and Global Governance
- Contemporary Issues in Economics
- Globalisation, Development and Social Justice
- Globalisation and Social Change
- Researching Race and Ethnicity
- Policing and Punishment
Final Year (Core)
- Dissertation
- Social Intersections: Gender, Race and Class
Final Year (Optional)
- Crimes of the Powerful: Corporations, the State and Human Rights
- Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
- Britain, Europe and the Extreme Right, 1918-to the Present
- Identity, Culture, Politics
- Cold War, Hot War: the Politics of the Middle East
- War and Society
- Migration and Social Transformation
- Human Rights and Social Justice in the Arts
- Human Rights and Political Violence
- The Politics of Crime in the Black Atlantic
- Sociology Dissertation
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
L2L3
Institution code:
K84
Campus Name:
Main Site
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
48 points (‘DD' or equivalent) from two A2 subjects or equivalent
Mature applicants (21 years and older) will need to pass a QAA-approved Access to Higher Education Diploma in a relevant subject with 60 credits minimum 45 credits at Level 3.
Applicants under 21 years will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
